Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar will hold a key strategic dialogue with a top Chinese official in Beijing on Wednesday the Chinese Foreign Ministry said, even as it claimed India had not sent “solid evidence” to sanction Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar.

In talks with Chinese Executive Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui, Jaishankar is likely to raise India’s entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and its on-going efforts to sanction the Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar at the UN Security Council 1267 sanctions committee, with both efforts running into resistance from China.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday reiterated its stand on both issues, but said it was “natural” to have differences with India and that both countries still had a wide range of convergence on other matters.